Posts Tagged ‘ronnie mcbrayer’
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Keeping the Faith: Jars of clay
In January 1947, three shepherd boys found themselves scampering after a goat that had strayed too far into the hills. It was growing late in the day, and the boys’ fathers would be very angry if they did not get their flock ho...
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Keeping the Faith: Back to the original
It all began in 1980 when the executives of the one of the largest companies in the world, secretly commissioned a scheme named “Project Kansas.” The commission had the most daunting task any group of business people could be g...
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Keeping the Faith: ‘Servanthood,’ a definition
The word “servanthood” is not recognized by my computer’s word processing program. Whenever I type the word it shows up with little red underline marks and a half-dozen other suggested words to put in its place. I don’t think w...
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A faith rekindled: Pastor,columnist Ronnie McBrayer returning to Florida
When Ronnie McBrayer wrote his first column, “Keeping the Faith,” for the Walton Sun in the summer of 2006, little did he know his words would be read by millions in the years to come.
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Keeping the Faith: Hard Grace
Instead of looking at the who picture, people often get caught up in minutiae when it comes to things in the Bible.
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Keeping the Faith: Have a little Chutzpah
There were four rabbis who had a series of ongoing theological arguments, and three were always in alignment against the fourth. One day, the odd rabbi out, after the usual “Three to One” vote, decided to appeal to a higher aut...
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Keeping the Faith: Love may not ‘fix,’ but it never fails
Our dryer was in a thousand pieces scattered across the laundry room floor, and I had a huge lump on the back of my head the size of grapefruit. Yes, I am ashamed to report these two seemingly unconnected things were very much ...
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Keeping the Faith: More than we can stand
In the previous generation there were at least three great Southern-born prophets: Martin Luther King, Jr., Clarence Jordan, and Will Campbell.
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Keeping the Faith: Minimum protection, maximum support
Tony Campolo retells an incident involving William Sloane Coffin following the death of his son, Alexander. Alex, as he was called, was killed in a car accident in 1983 when he was only twenty-four years old.
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Keeping the faith: Decisions, decisions- A guide
A farmer hired a man to work for him. He told him his first task would be to paint the barn and said it should take him about three days to finish. But the hired man worked very fast, and was finished in just one day